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If you're always having a case of the Mondays, then that's a clue.<p>While stress is an inherent part of working in a thriving business, it's important to distinguish between everyday stress and health-threatening stress. While some people thrive in a high-pressure environment, the stress will …

<i>As an independent, transparent marketplace for student loans, Credible helps borrowers understand all of their student loan repayment options.</i><p>Student loan repayments are burdensome no matter your financial situation. Those currently in repayment often opt into automatic payments to make life easier …

Yes, it's true. You can eliminate bosses while transitioning to a 4-day workweek.<p>For many years I've been keeping an eye on what companies are doing to try to squeeze more productivity out of their employees. While some companies use threats and coercion (not the best approach in my opinion) to get …

All organizations are political – and to some degree, they always will be. The underlying reasons are psychological. First, work involves dealing with people. That means finding a compromise between what they want and what we want; and it’s often a zero-sum game. Second, humans are emotional …

From a manager’s perspective, a new hire can’t come up to speed fast enough. Balancing the newcomer’s need to learn the ropes and your desire to have her quickly produce is a challenge for any time-strapped boss. What’s the best way to bring your new employee on board? Who do you enlist in the …

First things first: I obviously ruffled some feathers yesterday when I suggested that the Roku 3 was anything less than awesome. Let me clarify: It's no less than awesome. And I apologize for neglecting to note that the deal was for the first-gen model, not the newer Roku 3. (The "Roku 3.1"? "Roku …

Analytics has gone mainstream. We live in a world where <i>#bigdata</i> and <i>#hadoop</i> trend on social media. Most CEOs talk about being data-driven. Companies in a hurry to reap the rewards may treat analytics like a fad. Analytics is not a hairstyle, band or meme.<p>Getting value from analytics demands an …

We all know that having 500+ connections in LinkedIn makes a psychological impact on the viewers of our profile. We know this because we ourselves make judgments about others based on their number of connections. As it stands, you can have 20,000 connections and your profile will still say 500+. …

Now that most of the hype around big data has died down, overtaken by the buzz over the Internet of Things, we are sometimes treated to serious discussions of the state-of-the-art (or science, for that matter) in data analysis. If you are planning a career as a data scientist or you are a business …

What’s the real reason why top-performers are leaving the company voluntarily? How much more revenue could sales teams generate if they had the precise combination of training and compensation they needed to do a better job? How can companies make sure the right people are in the right place short …

In case you are still skeptical that many of the non-poor — and, in fact, a lot of the rich — receive benefits from government, too (for which we don't make them pee in a cup or promise not to buy luxuries), we've rounded up some more examples below.<p>1. <b>The mortgage interest deduction for big houses</b> …

This week Hindus around the world celebrate Holi, the Festival of Colors. Holi is a popular springtime celebration observed on the last full moon of the lunar month. Participants traditionally throw bright, vibrant powders at friends and strangers alike as they celebrate the arrival of spring, …

Going back to ancient times, the aim of storytellers has been to immerse us in an experience — of another place, time or point of view. This past week at the South by Southwest film, music and technology conferences in Austin, storytellers and great technologists showed off new ways to take us …

After reviewing Devious Dungeon, it occurred to me that the classic platformer game genre is far from dead. Even though the graphics for smartphone games have reached amazing heights with games like Real Racing 3, the Modern Combat franchise, and countless other top-tier titles, what's interesting …

Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs is shipping out its Myo gesture control band alpha units to developers to get them building software compatible with the new hardware, and it’s already resulting in some incredibly impressive early demos. The Myo team compiled a few of those together into a single short …

The action is set in a futuristic, war-ravaged hellscape in which battling players called pilots man colossal robotic killing machines, or Titans, in a hyperkinetic fight to the death.<p>A visual and auditory extravaganza that could bring Michael Bay to tears, it's just about as straightforward as a …

The second panel was moderated by investor Jeffrey Char from J-Seed Ventures, who asked founder of Culture Japan (and Jimmy Choo’s son) Danny Choo and Viki’s CEO Razmig Hovaghimian to tell their stories. Both entrepreneurs insisted on the fact that raising venture capital wasn’t necessarily the way …